David ...
I need to find a ground cover that can be walked on, can handle dry heat zone 8 and cold zone 8a to block the weeds. Grass simply takes too much water and care.
I have lousy soil and need to mulch to keep the moisture in the top inches of the soil. The mulch makes establishing a ground cover quite difficult. Should I forget about ground cover and think differently ?
I didn't show photos of the unfinished beds, but I know I needs some advice there, too.
I need to transplant several small roses that I planted when I first started the garden because I didn't know how to plant in glacier slurry and they are sited wrong and planted wrong. (I think I am going to put them in the woodshed bed after I remove the irises. I have no idea as to where to put the irises.)
I can add photos in another thread, if this is the proper place to ask for that kind of advice.
After I move the small roses out, and fix the grading in that bed, I'll need help figuring out what to put there. I do not want any more roses. It took me three days to dis-bud the garden and the roses were not in full flush. One of the beds I had planed for more roses is pretty empty.
I may know more than the average gardener about roses, but I don't know about other plants. It's quite honest to say I am very much the novice gardener.
For the rest of the summer, I won't be planting much because my day temps are in the mid 90s to low 100s and that is hard on transplants. I can shade them, but they will still be heat stressed. I'll be working to get everything weeded and mulched. So, I am kind of in the planning stage for what to add as far as adding plants for the next season.
Is this the forum to show those awful beds and landscape problems, from my point of view, to get help ?
Smiles,
Lyn
PS .. it has to have a "natural look" because I don't have time to create a more groomed look to the beds.
